Beatrice Arthur quote: "It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful."

My vagina can't give a monologue!
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm really not an invalid.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

When something is written for the stage, I think it's wrong to try to make it bigger. Very few thing...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything el...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing s...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

Lucy was lovely.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me beca...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the wa...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

From your mouth to God's ears.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEATRICE ARTHUR

I can't imagine working without and audience. And we had a great cast in both shows. And the great w...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEATRICE ARTHUR

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrate...
BEATRICE WOOD

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOOD

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOOD

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does...
BEATRICE WOOD

I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
BEATRICE WOOD

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD

Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD

I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books...
BEATRICE SPARKS

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
BEATRICE DALLE

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on con...
BEATRICE WOOD

And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Y...
BEATRICE WOOD

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself...
BEATRICE WEBB

Religion is love; in no case is it logic
BEATRICE WEBB

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious...
BEATRICE WEBB

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE WEBB

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would ha...
BEATRICE WEBB

Sorry, I don't do resolutions. That's for the simple fact that, whatever I say I'm going to do, I tr...
BEATRICE MONGO

They all seemed pretty happy.
BEATRICE MONGO

We found that one firefighter was considered inactive because he doesn't come to all the meetings, b...
BEATRICE MONGO

The firefighters were very wound up.
BEATRICE MONGO

I have been hearing about this all over town, and not just from the firefighters. This is why you ne...
BEATRICE MONGO

They agreed to return the nomination sheet to me by the first of next week, and we'll put together a...
BEATRICE MONGO

Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, s...
BEATRICE LILLIE

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
BEATRICE LILLIE

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mo...
BEATRICE LILLIE

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense -- adapting one-self ...
BEATRICE LILLIE

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue ot...
BEATRICE HINKLE

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaki...
BEATRICE HINKLE

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an indivi...
BEATRICE HINKLE

When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed...
BEATRICE HINKLE

The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that w...
BEATRICE HINKLE

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was use...
BEATRICE DALLE

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be some...
BEATRICE DALLE

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't tr...
BEATRICE DALLE

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
BEATRICE DALLE

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who d...
BEATRICE DALLE

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and w...
BEATRICE DALLE

The water flow has fallen by 200 cubic meters per second. This is a success.
BEATRICE POPESCU

It's good we have started running as a team. This encourages other athletes to improve their perform...
BEATRICE AYIKORU

I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places m...
BEATRICE SPARKS

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to a...
BEATRICE WEBB

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious...
BEATRICE WEBB

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det...
BEATRICE WEBB

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
BEATRICE SPARKS

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in ...
BEATRICE SPARKS

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
EVELYN BEATRICE HALL

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness a...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to a...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a det...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in ...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Even when she was raising us, she would make time to go out and solicit friends and acquaintances to...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON

Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON

She enjoyed spending time in Florida, but would never think of leaving the city that she truly loved...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would ha...
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

Religion is love; in no case is it logic
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB

At her words, words of forgiveness from Rose, an honest and just woman, something broke inside of Wi...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainme...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty an...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

It's like I'm dreaming of the imaginary friend Katie and I had when we were little. She'd been so re...
BEATRICE ROSE ROBERTS

It's been a while since I've had sex. I figured it was just like riding a bike, the only difference ...
BEATRICE STARK GIRL DETECTIVE

Learning is the gateway to adventure.
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was...
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK

Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. ...
PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancie...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG

(...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR

I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR

No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B...
ARTHUR LEVITT

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the v...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judais...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lo...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured th...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last severa...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which we...
ARTHUR GODFREY

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistak...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Time is that in which all things pass away.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave ne...
ARTHUR ERICKSON

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes.

(In...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD

It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

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